avaricious
Speech parts
1. avaricious - Adjective
2. avaricious - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
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Examples
The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious.
Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities. But now you act quite contrary to this; and are vainglorious and avaricious beyond all other men.
A wise economy- without avaricious meanness, or dirty rapacity will in a few years render you decently independent.
The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money.
If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.
When spherical bodies can unite and embrace, then there will be friendship amongst the avaricious.